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Media Player Box for my TV
shmokes:
I used to leave my internet (but not PC) open for public use, but I had to cut it off cos somebody was abusing it. Someone was not just connecting to it, but bittorrenting and not limiting his uploads and downloads to something reasonable and my internet started crawling. I can't be bothered to act like a network administrator and monitor things and just block only bad users. It's not like I was getting paid. So I had to cut it off. It made me sad to do it, cos I really like the idea of everyone sharing their internet access. How nice would it be if you could just pull out your laptop or PDA anytime, anywhere, and be pretty sure that you could probably pick up a WiFi signal? C'est la vie.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: shmokes on November 18, 2007, 12:00:38 pm ---I used to leave my internet (but not PC) open for public use, but I had to cut it off cos somebody was abusing it. Someone was not just connecting to it, but bittorrenting and not limiting his uploads and downloads to something reasonable and my internet started crawling. I can't be bothered to act like a network administrator and monitor things and just block only bad users. It's not like I was getting paid. So I had to cut it off. It made me sad to do it, cos I really like the idea of everyone sharing their internet access. How nice would it be if you could just pull out your laptop or PDA anytime, anywhere, and be pretty sure that you could probably pick up a WiFi signal? C'est la vie.
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You do know that you are liable for all net activity through your contracted connection? If that person had chosen to use your connection to do something really illegal, like distribute child porn, or send out threatening emails to public officials, it would have been your ass in a sling, not his, until you could specifically prove both that it was a third party and exactly who it was.
SirPeale:
I've purposely left it open. As long as they're not abusing the 'privilege' I'll leave it open.
Now...back to the task at hand...
--- Quote from: BMW Z1 on November 18, 2007, 06:17:26 am ---You can’t beat an Xbox running XBMC; it is the best true solution you’ll ever get.
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Again, I'm not interested. Let's go with what I've got. I've got a Windows 98 machine I want to read files off my Windows XP machine. They're both plugged into a wireless router. Can I get them to talk thru this? And how?
--- Quote from: ChadTower on November 18, 2007, 12:23:15 pm ---You do know that you are liable for all net activity through your contracted connection? If that person had chosen to use your connection to do something really illegal, like distribute child porn, or send out threatening emails to public officials, it would have been your ass in a sling, not his, until you could specifically prove both that it was a third party and exactly who it was.
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Actually, having an unsecured wireless link lends a lot to the "I didn't do it" defense. But I don't wish to discuss this in this thread. Moving right along...
SirPeale:
I'm not sure how it happened, but all my directories that I set as share directories suddenly showed up in "Network Neighborhood". Yay!
SirPeale:
Hooked it to my TV, works great. Took me an hour to find the cable to hook the soundcard to the TV, but it's working great.
What I need now is some kind of front end to pick video files from, instead of going thru Network Neighborhood and selecting it via explorer. Any hints?
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